Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 570, which features core speeds of 1168 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 480		13349 points
Radeon RX 570		12108 points
	Difference: 1241 (10%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570		298 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480		280 Sol/s
	Difference: 18 (6%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		27 Mh/s
Radeon RX 570		26 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (4%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		800 h/s
Radeon RX 570		600 h/s
	Difference: 200 (33%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 480 should in theory be a bit faster than the Radeon RX 570 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 should be a small bit (more or less 8%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 570. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11776 (8%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 should be a bit (approximately 4%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 480, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1536 (4%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.